All Souls' Day

Depending on quality of the life will decide whether the person will be reborn as a human, or any other creature. The life lived causes the body to attach to the soul. Therefore, the law of karma has preplanned the effects of the person’s reincarnation. If the person lived their last life as a cruel person, you are guaranteed that their soul will take the person to a new life into a home of mean and cruel parents. The ultimate goal of Hindus is to attain liberation by escaping samsara, in a…

In Hinduism, an individual’s soul undergoes the exhausting cycle of rebirth, or samsara, until liberation, or moksha, is achieved through becoming one with the world soul of Brahman. While separate paths exist to take when attempting to connect an individual soul with the world soul, the integral concept of the possession of a polytheistic imagination dictates the true worth behind any belief. By experiencing the polytheistic imagination, a person becomes able to understand, as Dr. Ortegren has…

were on earth to think and they understood that the body was something that just got in the way of knowledge. So even though Socrates was going to die, he wanted his friends to seek philosophical knowledge from other philosophers and enrich their souls with knowledge. In the scene were Socrates passes away; he sees death as a joke. Throughout the whole time, his…

everything your being needs . Whichever way you decide will be fine. The important thing is that you practice Reiki every day in yourself. In this way you will be able to tune in more deeply to the energy of Reiki every day and great things will happen in your life. According to some people, Usui Sensei practiced Gassho meditation as part of his personal practice of Reiki every day, twice a day. Gassho literally means, "two hands coming together". He taught his students how to practice Gassho…

1 Compare and contrast the views of John Searle and Rene Descartes on dualism. Dualism claims that all real objects are either physical or nonphysical. Rene Descartes maintains that reality is composed of two substances: mind and body. Mind is immaterial essence and body in material essence. All our thoughts and feelings are immaterial and exist in our mind, while our body exists in material space. He believed that they interact with each other at some point in the body. On the other hand,…

Alcatraz Ghosts Hauntings The Alcatraz prison is one of the many places in America that is haunted by ghost today and there is usually a strong belief in ghosts whether or not they actually exist this discussion has been argued for a long time in about all civilizations around the world since the old times. Such beliefs in ghosts started out from religion by believing in evil spirits called demons who were said to be lost on their journey to the afterlife and are cursed to stay be upon the…

Present in Hinduism, the idea of the transmigration of souls, or also known as metempsychosis involves a human soul evolving from incarnation to incarnation (Bhaskarananda, 2010). Therefore, it is common for a human soul is to be born time and time again, each time as a free soul, until the achievement of liberation from that process (Bhaskarananda, 2010). This continuous process of rebirth basically allows the continuous rebirth of a human soul in order to work out the very bad karma through…

In the Phaedo, Socrates introduces several arguments attempting to prove the immortality of the soul. Socrates and his followers enter intense philosophical argument regarding his theories, including the Theory of Opposites and the Theory of Forms. Examining these theories thoroughly, although Socrates’ theories are well and thoroughly thought out, there are aspects that do not completely hold up to scrutiny, including the nature of the forms and how subsequent theories falter without it. To…

opposite. He argues that God is born within the human soul and we can posses God in all places and things by being passive and keeping intact with our soul. The main difference between Eckhart and Cusanus is that Cusanus believes that God is superior to humans and that a relationship with him is not obtainable since we are unable to comprehend his superiority. Eckhart believes that a relationship is obtainable if we are able to stay close to our soul, which is where the word of God is born and…

Descartes was a great proponent of interactionist dualism. “In the philosophy of mind, dualism is the theory that the mental and the physical[,] or mind and body[,] are […] radically different” in nature. In addition, “interactionism is the view that mind and body […] causally influence each other.” In this essay, I will argue that Descartes’ view on interactionist dualism is incorrect. I will do so by: 1) presenting Descartes’ argument for dualism; 2) objecting to his arguments; 3) considering…